<p>What does “shi” mean?</p>
<p>^In Hawaii, you might eat sushi and drink beer then excuse yourself to make shi-shi.</p>
<p>LOL, IloveLA!</p>
<p>There are a number of ways to write “sushi” in Japanese characters. The most common one is purely phonetic. The word “sushi” predates the use of characters to write it, so the meaning doesn’t flow from the characters as it does in many other words.</p>
<p>[What</a> are the origins of the kanji for sushi?](<a href=“http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/sushiname.html]What”>What are the origins of the kanji for sushi?)</p>
<p>“The best part of sushi is the wasabi mustard! Mix it in with your soy sauce and dip your sushi piece in it. Depending on how much wasabi you put in the soy sauce, you can really clear your sinuses.”</p>
<p>Eat sushi the way you like, but understand that the above can be taken as insulting to the sushi chef. The true sushi master knows how much wasabi belongs in the sushi.</p>
<p>Wow! Thank you to everyone. I feel like I need to take notes and study - LOL.
This is really fantastic information.</p>
<p>I had no idea, sanapplecap2. No wonder he was brandishing his knife at me! LOL!</p>
<p>I couldn’t get past the seaweed that wraps the rolls. A good friend then ordered a spicy tuna roll with soy paper for me instead of the seaweed and now I love it!</p>
<p>If you ever have the chance, try a dragon roll</p>
<p>DD led us in making sushi at home, for a girl scout project. We were not going to mess with raw fish (I trust a sushi chef to look for bad stuff in fish). We made some of vegetables, and, IIRC, some using lox. It was great.</p>
<p>^ You can get sashimi grade tuna at many grocery stores. I’ve also used smoke salmon, and crab sticks.</p>
<p>I love sushi - especially salmon - like buttah. I’ve never had any salty sushi though - doesn’t sound good to me. </p>
<p>The key to me is that I won’t eat sushi that smells fishy so if there is an odor of fish at the sushi bar, I don’t stay. Fresh fish should have no fishy odor. I have eaten all kinds of sushi with my fingers and there was never a lingering fish odor so if that happened, I would be concerned. </p>
<p>Even so called “sushi grade” fish has been frozen for parasite destruction. </p>
<p>I’m going out for sushi tonight.</p>
<p>Oh, I love Dragon Roll! A new Japanese restaurant opened nearby, and they make a beautiful one that even looks like a dragon!</p>
<p>I absolutely love avocado, and I found a dragon roll at the grocery store that has an onsite sushi chef that makes it fresh every day. Love at first bite!</p>
<p>Is it really true that in Hawaii people make a sushi-like dish with Spam on the rice? I have heard of this, but it seemed really odd.</p>
<p>Yup on the Spam sushi. A slab of fried spam laid on a finger of rice and wrapped with a band of seaweed.</p>
<p>Yum, having sushi for dinner tonight. H’s favorite is fresh water eel sushi, my favorite is spicy scallop hand roll.</p>
<p>No way on the Spam! My first thought was the military influence, but now I can’t get the Monty Python song out of my head! Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam …</p>
<p>^^^it’s called spam musubi. (MOO-su-bee).</p>
<p>We had sushi last night. I got a craving after reading through this thread yesterday. We had a daimyo roll and a sushi bomb. Yummy! I love hot saki too.</p>
<p>My DH (who grew up in japan) and I LOVE sushi. But we especially love chirashi, which is sort of like a large bowl with a larg selection of sashimi on top of sushi rice. My kids call it a bucket o’ bait, LOL. Usually you get a lot of fish for a reasonable price.</p>